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itsgoghtime · 1 year

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Hello hello! I’ve missed you all and I’m super excited to get back into all the analysis posts for all the amazing fics that are coming out! (@sophieswundergarten you posted a new chapter on yours the day I decided that I was going to finish these ones and DANG ITS SO GOOD and I have thoughts that I will post on yours later!)

Spoilers and all the thoughts ahead for one of my favorite fics in the world, S.O.S. Chapter 5 : Broken Legs and Broken Wings

can I just say... I love birds. thank you.

I cannot imagine having nightmares like Curtain, okay? that just sounds absolutely awful - going from Nicky leaving, to his parents abandoning them (and the sadness from knowing that he doesn’t know), to his parents deaths, to SQ BEING THE ONE IN THE WHISPERER AND SHRIVELING LIKE THE PEOPLE IN THE MUMMY MOVIE GAHHH - still recovering from this one... that would be extremely traumatic.

okay but then lil SQ showing up at his bed and Curtain - “still half asleep, jumped and recoiled into his bed away from the voice” I imagine he just has this lil clown laugh that he does when he’s freaked out like that and it now lives in my head

CALLS HIM NICKY AHHHHH - I love how often this really comes up and all the dang symbolism in those moments - GOOD HEAVENS and then we get the innocent “I’m not Nicky. It’s me, SQ.” and his dream about the dark room sounds eerily identical to the Waiting Room in the book... I’m sure you did that on purpose but dang that would be legitimately terrifying

SQ and the sleepover request - you keep him safe buddy, you keep your dad safe - and then we get this gem after Curtain and his “nightmare about paperwork and stressful grown-up business” BRO ITS TRAUMA AND YOU DENYING IT DOES NOT HELP YOUR SONNNNN - but anyways, we get this line that I love “However, after his recent nightmare, there was nothing Curtain wanted more than to have his son close to him.” jeez tugging at my heartstrings like they’re electric guitar strings or something

we get stern dad Curtain but how they both just snuggle in and say the “goodnight I love you” GAHHHH MY HEART

I absolutely adore the idea of SQ going out with binoculars and his lil art supplies and going out into the wild and that Curtain encourages that (until he wants to go see his dang friends in the dang woods outside the dang fence ANYWAYS) - here’s one of my absolute favorite lines - “SQ’s favorite thing to paint were his friends, and the particular kind of friends he was interested in was a trait he inherited from his birth father.”

okay and I love the idea that someone came up with that SQ is psychic - he knows their names AND HE HAS A FAVORITE - I’m rooting for Oliver too, SQ

BUT OLIVER FALLS - WHAT NOOOOO OLIVERRRRR

oh my good gracious heavens - “10 feet is 10 feet... not 9.5, so I’m going to have to ask you to back away, unless of course you’d like an official demerit.” Jeffers what in the world bless your sweet soul WATCH FOR FREAKING SQ YOU SILLY SILLY MAN - NO THIS ISN’T A PAY RAISE FOR YOU

I absolutely loved the “Jeffers was still in the process of scaling the fence,” like, yeah that guy wouldn’t be the kind of kid that did that in his free time in the summers trying to get home from his best friend’s house at night before his mom got mad... anyways let’s continue - “when Milligan, who had been off in the distance when he had seen SQ fall, rushed towards the fence, and vaulted over it, in one heroic swoop, causing the fence to wobble and Jeffers to lose his balance.” hehe SUCKAHHH - the 6′5″ large man would show him up *coughcough somebody was definitely captain of the rowing team and somebody else definitely wasn’t coughcough* - but the hatred that Jeffers lowkey holds against him is something you can totally see later

Curtain being a good dad. yes.

Dr. Wetherall. Yes. yes yes. BRING BABY KATE YESSSSSS

okay so the Curtain being a good dad moment is slowly beginning to fade... lil SQ is afraid :( and the whole “Shepherd Quaid Curtain... please answer my question.” does not help

the SAFE line gahhhhhhh - coupled with “Curtain sighed and pressed his lips together. A bird. His son was talking about a bird.” okay Curtain but you’re the one who won’t let the poor boy make friends - I get the point about keeping him safe and not letting other people mistreat him for whatever reason, but this is your problem my dude

and SQ is so worried about him - “But he’s my friend... And he’s still down there and he’s probably so scared and cold. And what about his family? They’re probably worried about him. I have to go back and save him dad!” my good heavens we also just get the “Maybe it was the way that Pedalian had said those same words before he died: ‘I just wanted to save her.’” from Curtain and I just...GAH

oh jeez - Curtain, friend... again, I understand being triggered and reminded of Pedalian and also being protective of SQ, but I think he’s sometimes so blinded by the need to protect him that we have situations like this where he doesn’t see SQ, if that makes sense. It’s so evident not only in the way he speaks to SQ, but also when SQ winces and he thinks something is hurting him - duh Curtain, ITS YOU

we go between stern, mean dad Curtain and concerned, gentle, decent dad Curtain and you can totally see why SQ ends up the way he does later... ouch

I mean, going with this idea, we have “What on earth could have made SQ think his father was capable of something like that?” and “There was something about this reaction that disturbed Curtain even more.” - it makes me kinda sad for him, because he’s unintentionally pushing SQ away with how he’s parenting him - SQ can never really count on how his dad will react in any given situation because he’s so... all over the place.

“The person Ledroptha Curtain intended to make feel horrible was someone else entirely.” is one of the best lines that has ever been written - it’s then followed by a bunch of screaming from Curtain (who makes a lot of valid points) and then “SQ might have spent his life in a chair due to your incompetence!” our dear Jeffers - here’s one of the first examples of failing to secure the perimeter... to be followed by many many other instances...

also Jeffers not catching the sarcasm and thinking that he might actually lose his job to Wetherall - bless his soul - no Jeffers, the literal reason you’re there is because you’re unaware and ask no questions (the very reason that Wetherall ends up leaving... mentally...)

I really appreciated the line “If there was one thing Curtain needed to impress upon his employees, it was that keeping his family safe was their top priority.”

“...the next person responsible for SQ getting injured on their watch was going to experience the full wrath of Ledroptha Curtain.” heheheee YES

“...this image was always shattered when he stood next to Milligan, who towered above Jeffers, and now because Milligan had proven his physical superiority by stealing what was supposed to be Jeffers’ big moment (saving the boss’ son) and turning it into Jeffers biggest shame (failing to secure the perimeter).” AND THEN “Jeffers didn’t exactly have a plan for how he would accomplish this (he wasn’t the planning sort of man), but he knew that when the opportunity arose, he was going to seize the moment and prove himself. Somehow.” this man has impostor syndrome and I think it is the funniest thing - I get why he feels the way he does and it’s valid, but knowing that it’s Jeffers just makes it hysterical

okay but then Curtain has the moment of “...even though he hadn’t been yelling, he had raised his voice quite a bit. And SQ had always been sensitive to noise. Well, and of course Curtain had also stood up to his full adult height, which does look rather intimidating from a five-year-old’s perspective.” AND THEN THE LINE ABOUT OLIVERRRR - yes it’s a bird, but as a wise song from a movie once said, “Critters have feelings too” and Oliver is SQ’s friend

I love love LOVE “Curtain remembered the way that his son had looked at him when he said those words. Desperate, pleading with his father, staring at him with his adorably wide innocent brown eyes. Pedalian had had those eyes. Nicholas had them too.” ANNNDDD “One day, Ledroptha Curtain was going to learn to say no to those eyes. But today was not that day.” nobody can say no to those eyes. my freaking HEART GAH

Putting on his hiking boots and getting the flashlight - YES CURTAIN YESSSS

oh my good gracious heavens - Jeffers put up TrAfFiC cOnEs and CAUTION TAPE WHAT - he cracks me up and I think I have laughed just as hard every time I’ve read it

hehehe the “Instead, he scaled the fence (though with great difficulty) ad made his way down to the other side) we all know who the captain of the rowing team was and who wasn’t, don’t we

but then “Curtain sighed. His son was really going to resent him now.” with “He shined the flashlight in the direction of the noise and found Oliver, still alive, but struggling to move.” HE’S CALLING HIM OLIVERRR AHHHHH

both of lil Oliver’s wings are broken - like SQ ;(

I also love the glimpse we get into Nicholas and Nathaniel at the orphanage - SQ really is so much like Nicholas and I love that for just a moment, it seems like he draws on that experience and isn’t doing his usual “I hate Nicholas” routine and takes Oliver home

from the very beginning of this, I have loved seeing SQ and Kate’s friendship. He draws her pictures and I think that is the cutest thing - and I’m sure the Wetheralls have SQ’s art up in their home.

KATIE-CAT - AHHHHHHHH

You can see Curtain is trying - yeah, he isn’t the best parent, and he really should probably be a little more self-aware, but he’s trying

OLIVERRRRR - I love that Curtain tended to the lil bird and SQ’s excitement? My soul is filled.

“Thank you dad... I love you”

“I love you too, Shep.” GAH

okay but Garrison standing outside SQ’s room, Milligan finding her... my heart

I really... can I just say, I have really learned to appreciate Garrison by reading SOS. Watching her in the show, I don’t feel like I was really able to understand the depth of her character because we’re so invested in everyone else’s story (which is still magnificent and amazing). But reading SOS helped me really see her value and how relatable she is - it’s become my canon anyways haha - but overall, Garrison just needs a hug and good friends (like Milligan, but we all know what happens there... ouch)

she’s still so worried about SQ... but there’s that mental image of Pedalian in her machine and thinking SQ will ask her questions... mY hEaRt hEaVeN fOrBiD

And we get more of the relationship between SQ and Curtain - makes me so freaking sad but there’s some cute wholesome moments that I also love

“You don’t need to be afraid to talk to him. Pedalian’s death wasn’t your fault. You know that, right?” GOOD GRAVY my heartstrings are all tugged

Tommorrow, Tommorrow, Titration tomorrow - GAH (someone needs to write the lyrics of “Tomorrow” from Annie to that line from the show ahahaaaaa)

As sad and ironic as the line is about Garrison’s lab being underground and it not being good for someone who’s trying to recover (haha I can relate) BUT I thought there’s such an interesting point to the line about the Whispering Gallery being at the top of the tower when “...the machine would have worked just as well underground with the rest of the lab.” I mean, it just feels like another power play from Curtain of “I’m higher and better than you” so much that he literally designs the building that way. Maybe I’m reading into that too much, but I thought it was interesting.

haha - Garrison not understanding what the antennas are for is absolutely hilarious AND THEN Curtain totally is just like “let’s brainwash the world with all the good feelings” without saying it outright and I think that’s hysterical because it totally covers season one and season two

AND THE LINESSSSSSS - poison apples poison worms, friends, it’s all there and I love ittttt

for no reason at all, Curtain talking about his “student volunteers” reminds me of that post that’s been going around recently about crazy grandpa Curtain electrocuting children in caves and I cannot undo the comparison in my brain

he makes it so much about their business arrangement it hurts my heart for Garrison

Curtain suggesting a nap is me trying to convince myself to go to sleep every night heheheee

I also think it’s interesting that Curtain recognizes that SQ is a barrier between him and Garrison, and that it’s probably part of the reason that he keeps SQ so close all the time. I’m sure there’s other reasons too, but that just clicked for me when I read it

THIS LINE - “As much as he was not willing to part with his vision for the future, a future where he could have complete control, where he could keep his family safe, where he could have all the power and security he wanted, Ledroptha Curtain was also not willing to give up the only friends he had ever had. Not after what he had already lost.” all of it. is. just. AMAZING. we’ve really watched him go down so slowly it hurts watching him hurt and think that it has to come to this - also the fact that he’s emotionally preparing for his friend’s betrayal hits very close to home due to past experience

SQ and the bird in the cage being imprisoned together is so symbolically symmetric. I love it.

Ledroptha “Control is good because it protects my family” Curtain bless his soul

AGAIN WITH TITRATION - if I remember after I finish all these analysis posts, I’ll write the lyrics to that tune because it now lives in my head rent free along with all our Muppet MBS song adaptations hahaaaa

Katie-Cat. My heart.

Milligan takes the ferry - probably best he lived away from them as long as he did... but knowing how things happen makes that line hurt

Kate would be a fantastic lab manager though - and Milligan is just so proud of her (this should be part of the “Tomorrow” adaptation for sure)

also Milligan is literally just the best. The Wetheralls are the cutest and it’s just so sad that things happen the way they do - I understand why, but gosh dang - it almost hurt more the second time around

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Another amazing chapter - I feel like this one was one of my favorites, just with all the different perspectives we get to see - and lil SQ and Kate, the ultimate friendship that we never got to see

I also just really love the title of the chapter - there’s a lot of symbolism not only because of SQ and Oliver, but it’s also legs being broken like progress having to be stopped for a little while when Milligan and Garrison left. Broken wings like broken trust, broken friendships, and Curtain’s grounding himself fully in his vision for control. I love it.

Inspiring work as usual, @nobody33333333 - thank you for writing this, it has healed my heart (and continues to heal my heart) of the Season 3 hole that was there.

Love you all 💛,

Talk to you soon,

- Gogh 🌻

#the mysterious benedict society #mbs #mysterious benedict society #ld curtain #mbs disney #sos #sos chapter 5

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lonesomedreamereccentriclover · 9 months

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On November 14th, the @criterioncollection is releasing a standalone 4K blu-ray of The Last Picture Show by Peter Bogdanovich!

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features

Texasville (1990), the sequel to The Last Picture Show, presented in both the original theatrical version and a black-and-white version of Peter Bogdanovich’s director’s cut, produced in collaboration with cinematographer Nicholas von Sternberg

Two audio commentaries, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall

Three documentaries about the making of the film

Q&A with Bogdanovich from 2009

Screen tests and location footage

Introduction to Texasville featuring Bogdanovich, Shepherd, and actor Jeff Bridges

Excerpts from a 1972 television interview with filmmaker François Truffaut about the New Hollywood

Trailers

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by film critic Graham Fuller and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich about Texasville, with a new introduction by Bogdanovich biographer Peter Tonguette

Cover by F. Ron Miller

#Peter Bogdanovich #The Last Picture Show #The Criterion Collection #Texasville #4K blu-ray #4K HDR #Jeff Bridges #Cybill Shepherd

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Sam Bottoms, Eileen Brennan, and Timothy Bottoms in The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms, Sharon Ullrick, Randy Quaid, Joe Heathcock, Bill Thurman, Barc Doyle. Screenplay: Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, based on a novel by McMurtry. Cinematography: Robert Surtees. Production design: Polly Platt. Film editing: Donn Cambern Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman won Oscars for The Last Picture Show, Jeff Bridges and Ellen Burstyn were nominees, and Cybill Shepherd and even Randy Quaid went on to more prominent careers, but the protagonist of the film is Sonny Crawford, played by Timothy Bottoms. His quiet, shyly withdrawn character is the one that carries the movie from beginning to end. The role could have been played by Bridges, but I think director Peter Bogdanovich made the right decision: Bridges is too up-front an actor for the role of Sonny. Bottoms's ability to fade handsomely into the background makes him a perfect actor for a character who needs to be quietly passive. He shouldn't outshine the rest of the ensemble, but instead bring home the film's message about the damage that can be done in a dying community like Anarene, Texas -- an antithesis to the sentimentalized small towns that for so long dominated American movies. What emerges from the starved lives of the citizens of Anarene is not a sense of community, a willingness to love and help one's neighbor, but a kind of deep meanness, a self-righteous self-centeredness. For me, the scene that best captures this emotional and moral stuntedness is the one in which the town goes out in hysterical pursuit of Joe Bob Blanton (Barc Doyle), the preacher's son whom we see being bullied and mocked throughout the movie. In our times, I suspect, Joe Bob's revenge would have involved shooting up the local high school, but instead he picks up a little girl and drives off into the country with her, setting off a frenzy. But when he's found and carted off to jail, everyone seems to forget about the little girl: We see her tagging along, virtually unnoticed, after the mob that's rejoicing in its victory. We remember how surprised and disgusted people were when Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson) left Joe Bob a thousand dollars in his will -- probably to tell the boy to get the hell out of Anarene before it's too late. Unfortunately, it seems to be too late for everyone else. Duane goes off to Korea, but he promises to return if he doesn't get shot. Jacy, we hear, is in Dallas, but she'll maintain the carapace of vanity and manipulativeness she evolved in Anarene wherever she goes. At the end, we're left with Sonny and Ruth (Leachman), reunited in lonely hopelessness.

#The Last Picture Show #Peter Bogdanovich #Timothy Bottoms #Sam Bottoms #Eileen Brennan

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With no more Illusion, Stone quits producing

Director Oliver Stone and his producing partner Dan Halsted will dissolve their Illusion Entertainment shingle, they announced. Stone, who just finished directing the gridiron ensemble drama “Any Given Sunday,” has decided to shed his role of producing films directed by others to concentrate on his own writing and directing efforts.

The company essentially will come to a halt when Illusion’s first-look deal with Mandalay Pictures and its financing arrangement with Franchise Pictures concludes during the summer. Both said the move was amicable and that they will continue to collaborate on projects that Stone might direct.

Halsted, who separately produced the Cannes-bound film “The Virgin Suicides” and the upcoming Wesley Snipes starrer “The Art of War,” is expected to open his own production company shortly, and will continue to shepherd the Illusion TV and feature projects he and Stone hatched together. “I now have the best of both worlds, a continuing relationship with Oliver and the ability to pursue other avenues,” Halsted said in a statement.

The inventory of active Illusion projects for TV and features numbers about 20 and includes several possible helming assignments for the two-time, Oscar-winning director. Those include “Valhalla,” the Michael Blake-scripted story of Gen. George Custer at New Line, which could be Stone’s next film; a Stone-penned adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel “The Fountainhead” at Warner Bros.; and a Kario Salem-scripted biopic of Martin Luther King Jr., also at Warners. Additionally, there is an untitled love story by Caspian Treadwell Owen involving a U.N. relief worker that’s set up at Mandalay.

Stone met Halsted when the latter was an exec at Disney and Stone planned to direct “Evita” there. Stone left the project and Halsted ankled the executive suites to join him in 1995. Halsted became a producer of films that include “Any Given Sunday” (which wrapped second-unit just work days ago), “Nixon” and “U-Turn,” as well as the pics “Freeway” and “The Corruptor” and the PBS docu “Assassinated: The Last Days of Kennedy and King.” Stone said he got along with Halsted fine, but the stress of producing was taking its toll.

“Life has just gotten too hectic, and the price of producing was often too high,” Stone said. “I wasn’t trying to be overtly commercial, and tried to help a lot of first-time directors, which was something I wanted to do since NYU Film School because I remembered how hard it was to get a first film off the ground. We never had a major success, but we made some pictures I’m proud of.”

Stone felt that his high profile and the controversies associated with such films as “JFK” and “Natural Born Killers” often colored the media perception of projects he produced, such as “People vs. Larry Flynt.”

“I can recall reading negative criticism on that film that went out of its way to single me out,” Stone said. “After a while, you start getting the message.”

Stone sounded tired after just completing the signal calling on the John Logan-scripted gridiron drama for Warner Bros. with a cast that includes Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz, Lauren Holly and Jamie Foxx. The film’s expected to open sometime during this fall’s football season.

“It was a very hard 65-day shoot and left me feeling that football is tougher to shoot than war,” said Stone, who directed the battlefield dramas “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July.”

Stone will revive Ixtlan, the production company he formed in 1977, but only to shepherd his own directing vehicles.

“We’ll move forward the projects that are for me, but otherwise, I’m finished, I’m not producing anymore,” Stone said. “It’s overwhelming, the phone calls, the unsolicited manuscripts are never-ending, and I’d like to go back to writing.”

Asked his best memory as a producer, Stone said one indelible moment came during filming of the riot scene for “Natural Born Killers,” which got out of hand and had the filmmaker and crew fearing for their safety. “It was in danger of becoming a full-scale riot in Joliet, but I found I had the support of the leader of the biggest black gang,” Stone said. “It turned out that the guy, who was about 350 pounds, loved ‘South Central,’ a small movie I’d produced about a man paroled from jail who tries to save his son.”

-Michael Fleming, "With no more Illusion, Stone quits producing," Variety, May 4 1999

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alreadydeadtoyou · 11 months

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Cyclical Brokeness

Last Year This Time...

When I saw today is June 1st, I thought back to what I was doing last year. Was it mania? I thought I would use $40 to purchase stamps and contact people/businesses/Tom Wopat to relay they are listed on the California Unclaimed Property website.

Not wanting to cum off like a starfucker, I contacted people regardless of whether they were owed $300 OR $30k, giving added attention to farmers and people I thought could really use it (addresses in wildfire areas). Most of this was done via USPS, but if I could track down a working email address or professional/business address, I sent it there.

Found lots of money for numerous large companies, where I thought MINIMALLY I would receive some coupons for free salad. Or wine. Or a hotel stay.

I did not get shit! I’ve revisited this episode a hundred times and can not figure out why a single person/business did not contact me to say “Thanks.” I found insurance health claim money for doctors and clinics, old stocks and securities for celeb types, money for foundations and goddamn egg farms. NOTHING!

Was it my hand addressed envelope with a Wisconsin postmark and Homie Homestyle letter with ACTUAL COPY/PASTE OF INFO from the California Unclaimed Property website?! Is that what had Nigerian lothario-identity thief-some type of scam where “Julie” is squatting in my laundry room ala Randy Quaid-literally & figuratively.

Look me (and my 12 Friends) up on Facebook or google my name to see only my divorce and brother’s obituary are listed. It doesn’t get any more fucking real than that, but I’m sure these folks are walking over homeless people daily while holding a Pink Drink.

I just thought some money for my birthday would be nice. That was last year. This year, I just went through a Wisconsin winter with no heat in my bedroom and no money to pay an electrician. I ended up abandoning the bedroom mid-March when an animal making sawing noises (like a Flintstone’s cartoon) was busy within the walls all night like a fucking horror movie. I’ve not had ANY medications at this point and I noticed every time I shoveled I would experience a pain in my right rib area. It’s never been ‘right’ over there--I’ve had SHARP pains behind my implant just from rolling over in bed and that was 5-6 years ago. And that’s the non-problematic pritty implant. If I had to guess, I think a tumor or 2 have knitted their way into that area. I’m easily fatigued now--especially the past 3 weeks. Thought some of it was Penelope dying (13 year old German Shepherd), but I am kind of relieved she is gone. I didn’t have the money to take her to a vet and that will always trouble me.

#poverty #depression #cancer #Tom Wopat #california unclaimed property #birthday

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One dog story review

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At the risk of making their human subjects too flawed, fallible, or even distasteful, they sever them from perspectives on surrounding places, people, and experiences (largely in the Middle East), turning them into broad, dimensionless cutouts of jingoistic heroism. These films take understandably somber approaches, but they’re also blinkered - like many Hollywood movies about war trauma tend to be - explorations of the experiences of American soldiers in a way that feels disconnected from the big picture of the war itself. Their rightness or wrongness hardly matters when the result is not only this sincere, but so downright bizarre that it manages to deconstruct an entire Hollywood subgenre.Ĭo-directed by Tatum and Magic Mike writer Reid Carolin (and co-written by Carolin and Brett Rodriguez), Dog bears resemblance to other recent war dramas about soldiers and their Belgian Shepherds, like Max and Megan Leavey. It’s a blast from start to finish, whether for the right reasons or the wrong ones. However, it’s both funnier and more shocking than its filmmakers seem to realize (not to mention, filled with the kind of tonal whiplash reserved for so-bad-it’s-good midnight cinema). Army Ranger tasked with chauffeuring a traumatized military canine, presents itself as a feel-good road trip comedy with occasional animal melodrama and sprinkles of wartime commentary. And it offers the mush and cheesiness that usually comes with sweet dog stories. Basically if you’re in the mood for a flick of this type, there hasn’t been one made on the big screen of this quality in some time, so enjoy.Dog, which stars Channing Tatum as a former U.S. _A Dog’s Journey _is a familiar family drama. You’ll “ohhhh” and “awwwww” at the puppies as they appear on screen, and likely end up getting swept up for the adorable ride. It’s reminiscent of the charm of Homeward Bound, and it deserves credit for daring to talk through some teaching moments usually not found in a PG family movie. Whether it be through CJ’s many meet-cutes with the dogs or the touching moments that aim to coerce all the tears out of you, A Dog’s Journey somehow makes it work. Sure it’s a whole lot of fluff but you just can’t help but go along and pet this story as it strolls along. Bailey’s dog commentary often hits the right beats and often compliment the story well - though yes, they sometimes are as corny as one might expect. We may have director Gail Mancuso to thank here since she’s helmed various sitcoms such as Friends and Modern Family over the years.

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This time, the movie has a more tightened focus on their granddaughter CJ, who is torn away by her mother as she deals with the aftermath of her husband’s death and becoming a single parent.Īnother improvement from the original is how cleverly Josh Gad’s voice performance is utilized this time around. This story began back in A Dog’s Purpose with Bailey’s relationship with Dennis Quaid’s Ethan and his wife Hannah (played by Marg Helgenberger, who replaces the late Peggy Lipton). Dog lovers will especially fall to pieces for this one, and there’s plenty of room in the human stories for cat people to enjoy this chapter, as well.Ī Dog’s Journey centers on a dog named Bailey (voiced by Josh Gad) who has been reincarnated over and over as other dogs of various breeds over the course of around 60 years. It’s heartwarming, funny and unexpected at times – and for a movie like this, the latter is ruff to achieve (sorry, had to do it). For those already following the trilogy: rejoice (!) because A Dog’s Journey is the best one yet. My advice: if you haven’t yet checked these movies out, skip out on the other two and fetch this one up.

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